Robustness show great promise if they can get out of the lab into the field and go beyond a single-operator per robot paradigm. However, the unstructured nature of the real-world requires nuanced decision making of the robot.

In this talk I will outline some of our approaches, progress, and results on multi-modal sensing, providing nuanced perception inputs, as well as navigation in difficult terrain, and extensions to multi-robot teams, and future directions of our research.